Saturday, November 17, 2012

School Tier Map for Rogers Park and West Ridge

Scanning Rogers Park discussions on the internet this writer came across a discussion regarding the
Chicago Public Schools and the tier system by census tract. As with any bureacracy there is a byzantine
confusing way to figure out where your address is ranked in the tier system or you could just look at the map. Red is tier one, orange is tier two, yellow is tier three and green is tier four. Tier one is the worst and tier four is the best. Easy enough to understand as most real estate agents refer to the safe part of the city as the Green Zone (that borrowed from Iraq War) and Red generally means Danger. Atleast there are no red zones in Rogers Park, The orange zones do correspond with the roughest/most violent parts of Rogers Park and West Ridge (atleast with NOH -North of Howard and with adjacent to Warren Park).

How are these tiers determined?
1)Median family income
2)Percentage of single family houses
3)Percentage of homes where English is not primary language
4)Percentage of owner occupied homes
5)Level of education for adults
6)Achievement scores for students

If you did the same analysis by skin color of the residents, I wonder if the map would render similar tiers in the same configuration.....just wondering. Or is it politically incorrect even to consider that in the privacy of my own brain?

So Warren Park/golf course covers about half the most dangerous area of RP/WR??? And Touhy Park? I guess there aren't many single family homes there, and that the residence don't have much of an education, being mostly squirrels.

And judging by what language residents speak? Really? Knowing 2 or more languages makes a neighborhood more "dangerous"?